Mentor man downloads 50 billionth Apple app

3 years ago

Apple announced Thursday that Brandon Ashmore of Mentor downloaded the 50 billionth apps from the company’s App Store. Brandon received a $10,000 App Store Gift Card to commemorate the historic milestone.

Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services says they were absolutely floored to cross this milestone in less than five years.

Mr. Ashmore said in an interview that he was watching a ticker on the App Store counting down to the 50 billionth download and downloaded Say the Same Thing — an app from the band OK Go — to his iPhone 5 on Wednesday afternoon. That night, an Apple representative called him and notified him that he had won the $10,000 Gift Card.